Besides the charming accent, this is much more reason to listen to Hitchens. His points, usually hidden underneath barbed attacks on religion, using pejorative language to emphasis his point, can sometimes give an impression of going off-topic. However, this brings back to the main point, it is much better to project to the people in the pews than to sway the theologians in ivory towers that have an entirely different view altogether. This may appear to be a straw man, since he is not directly attacking his opponent's views, but I think the medium used is more conducive to making speaking points to the audience than actual discussion so I've learned to accept it as a debating tactic. If the difference between these two types of believers differ too greatly, he has one at least one occasion asked the rhetorical, abiding by Harris's request to call a spade a spade, "I thought I was debating a religious person?"
The scorecard objectively shows the damage of Hitchen's forte. His rhetoric pertaining to the ill effects of religiosity bar none better. One could not help leaving out his trademark phrase concerning the Catholic Church of "no child's behind left." A force to be reckoned with, but it is unfortunate that he is sometimes downplayed because his antics cloud some people's ability to see his underlying points.
Here, Hitchen's makes his case of how religion poisons everything.
Besides the charming accent, this is much more reason to listen to Hitchens. His points, usually hidden underneath barbed attacks on religion, using pejorative language to emphasis his point, can sometimes give an impression of going off-topic. However, this brings back to the main point, it is much better to project to the people in the pews than to sway the theologians in ivory towers that have an entirely different view altogether. This may appear to be a straw man, since he is not directly attacking his opponent's views, but I think the medium used is more conducive to making speaking points to the audience than actual discussion so I've learned to accept it as a debating tactic. If the difference between these two types of believers differ too greatly, he has one at least one occasion asked the rhetorical, abiding by Harris's request to call a spade a spade, "I thought I was debating a religious person?"
The scorecard objectively shows the damage of Hitchen's forte. His rhetoric pertaining to the ill effects of religiosity bar none better. One could not help leaving out his trademark phrase concerning the Catholic Church of "no child's behind left." A force to be reckoned with, but it is unfortunate that he is sometimes downplayed because his antics cloud some people's ability to see his underlying points. Here, Hitchen's makes his case of how religion poisons everything.
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